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Development subjectivities, governmentality, and migration management in the Pacific / Lya Mainé Astonitas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Astonitas, Lya Mainé, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in global development studies, 2634-0313.
- Cambridge elements. Elements in global development studies, 2634-0313
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural laborers--New Zealand.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Seasonal labor--New Zealand.
- Seasonal labor.
- Migrant labor--New Zealand.
- Migrant labor.
- Foreign workers--New Zealand.
- Foreign workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understanding social and historical relations produced by migration management at regional, country, and individual scales. The Recognised Seasonal Employer's (RSE) scheme, the Pacific epitome of regulated migration, temporarily recruits participants from labour-rich countries to work in New Zealand's horticulture and viticulture sectors. Driven by agricultural labour shortfalls, it was conceived and promoted as a development intervention for Pacific countries, and is regularly claimed to provide a 'triple win' for employers and industry, Pacific countries via remittances, and participants' communities. Missing from these claims is an understanding of how seasonal migration fits into new migration management regimes, and the instruments deployed to enable this omission. To appreciate how workers' subjectivities are transformed to favour labour mobility, the spotlight is on the scheme's articulation as a development instrument, its operationalisation, and the mundane day-to-day situations it entails.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Feb 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-40022-3
- 1-009-40023-1
- 1-009-40021-5
- OCLC:
- 1446422366
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